[152] _Social-Democratic Herald_, Vol. XII, No. 12. [153] _Social-Democratic Herald_, Vol. XII, No. 12. [154] _Social-Democratic Herald_, Vol. XII, March 24, 1906. [155] The following account is taken from the Garment Workers' Bulletin:-- "Recently the hod carriers in San Francisco presented a petition to their employers for increased pay and pressed for its consideration. This gave the members of the National Association of Manufacturers the opportunity they longed for to open war in San Francisco, and they promptly availed themselves of it. The petition was refused, of course, and two large lime manufacturers in the city took a hand. The contractors resolved on heroic measures, and work was stopped on some sixty buildings to 'bring labor to its senses.' Then Mayor McCarthy came into the controversy. He called his board of public workers together and remarked: 'I see all the contractors are tying up work because of the hod carriers' request. Better notify these fellows to at once clear all streets of building material before these structures and to move away those elevated walks and everything else from the streets.' The board so ordered. Then Mr. McCarthy said: 'Notice that those lime fellows are taking quite an interest in starting trouble. Guess we had better notify them that their temporary permits for railroad spurs to their plants are no longer in force.' And due notice went forth. The result was that the trouble with the hod carriers was settled in a week, and the contemplated industrial war in the city was indefinitely postponed...." [156] The _Bridgeport Socialist_, Oct. 29, 1911. [157] The _New York Times_, Oct. 20, 1911. [158] _New Yorker Volkszeitung_, Dec. 9, 1911. [159] _New York Evening Post_, Nov. 13, 1911. [160] _Collier's Weekly_, Dec. 9, 1911. [161] _Saturday Evening Post_, Nov. 18, 1911. [162] The _Outlook_, Aug. 26, 1911. [163] The _New York Call_, Aug. 14, 1911. [164] W. R. Shier in the _New York Call_, Aug. 16, 1911. [165] Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York, Oct. 15, 1910. [166] _Hampton's Magazine_, January, 1911. [167] "Business," p. 290. [168] "Business," p. 114. CHAPTER V REFORM BY MENACE OF REVOLUTION An American Socialist author expresses the opinion of many Socialists when he says of the movement: "It strives by all efforts in its power to increase its vote at the ballot box. It believes that by this increase the attainment of its goal is brought ever nearer, and also that _the menace of this increasing vote_ induces the capitalist class to grant concessions in the hope of preventing further increases. _It criticizes non-Socialist efforts at reform as comparatively barren of positive benefit_ and as tending, on the whole, to insure the dominance of the capitalist class and to continue the grave social evils now prevalent."[169] (My italics.)